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Vinorama

Wine tastings: how & where we learn about wine

17/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

I learn about wine in four main ways, or places: the first and most important is with meals, at home or dining out, because wine is at its showy or discreet best when paired well with food and enjoyed because you’re relaxing. To learn here, you need to pay attention, though, and sometimes we drink […]

Filed Under: Vineglorious! Swiss wine book, Wineries Tagged With: agenda, Bistro Hotel Royale Geneva, Cave SA, Chateau de Villa Sierre, Coop Mondovino, Divinum, Divo, L'Instant Vin, Memoire des Vins Suisses, open wineries, Open winery days, ProVino, Swiss Wine Promotion, Swiss Wine Tourism, Vinea, Vinorama

Swiss wine tourism comes of age

24/06/2018 by Ellen Wallace 3 Comments

This could be a watershed year for Swiss wine, the year when wine tourism comes of age. Lausanne in March became one of the world’s 10 Great Wine Capitals, a network of wine centres that is behind the five-year-old International Best of Wine Tourism awards. Switzerland’s first awards, whose winners compete in the international awards, […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Amigne on the road, Arvinis, Best of Wine Tourism Awards, canton Vaud, Expovino, Féchy, Festival du Chasselas, Fête des Vignerons 2019, Geneva, Great Wine Capitals, Musée Valaisan du vin, Open cellar days, Pfyn-Finges Nature Park, Russin, Suisse oenotourisme, Swiss Wine Promotion, Swiss Wine Tourism, Vétroz, Vinea, Vinorama, Visit French Wine

Lavaux for a lamb-friendly red

23/09/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The weather is chilly, the leaves are turning, and I’m ready for roast lamb again. I was leaving the Vinorama wine centre in Lavaux after a ribbon-cutting event for a new hiking trail, in late April. On the spur of the moment I said to the staff that my husband was home preparing lamb, potatoes […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: "Le Virtuose", blends, Blondel-Dubous winery, Dézaley, Epesses, Vinorama

Mondial du Pinot Noir judging, off to Lavaux Vinorama

18/08/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A morning of judging Pinot Noir wines from around the world and the judges need a break and a little educational boost. So Friday afternoon ended with a visit to the Lavaux Vinorama, built into the rocks on the lakefront near Vevey in May 2010. If you haven’t yet visited, do so. […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Lavaux, Mondial des Pinots, Terravin, Vaud wines, Vinorama

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